Unforeseen

Hard to say what to rate this. Plot's a good solid 3.5. But the writing? Even for a cheap/free Kindle download, this sucked. Look, Nick. You have a foreword about how this book is your baby. Yeah? How in hell do you think a baby should be treated? Would you feed it, give it clothing? Two suggestions: 1......more

I'm pretty conflicted about this. It's not a bad story, and the writing is more than adequate. I'm a huge fan of sarcasm and dry wit, and Pirog is good at it, but there's way too much of it here. Almost every page has a "witty" or sarcastic comment, and it stops being amusing and begins to feel snar......more

The edition I read is the tenth anniversary one (not really dated except for celebrity references, so this book is one of those early embarrassment works. I mean the author seems to be proud of it and apparently wrote more of them. Pirog's writing has certainly improved. His Henry Bins 3 am book (wh......more

Reading Nick's bio helped me put this book in better perspective. He wrote this book while in his early 20's, which explains some of the adjectives and adverbs (sometimes archaic, sometimes wrong), a lot of the high-school level humor (although I laughed out loud very late at night over 2 of the wit......more